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I received this info from my remissier at PM Securities a few years ago. Since then I had emailed it to a few friends. The Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said " Whoever seeks success in this world, knowledge is the tool, whoever seeks success in the hereafter, knowledge is also the tool. Whoever seeks success both in this world and the hereafter, knowledge is the tool too".

We have been enjoined in the Holy Quran to supplicate like this " O Lord, increase me in knowledge".

Education Is The Thing

By: Dr Farrukh Saleem

The writer is an Islamabad-based freelance columnist

There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in theAmericas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 inAfrica.For every single Jew in the world there are 100 Muslims.Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerful than all theMuslims put together. Ever wondered why?

Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time and TIMEmagazine's 'Person of the Century', was a Jew.Sigmund Freud - id, ego, superego -- the father of psychoanalysis was aJew.So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual output has enriched thewhole humanity:

Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.Alert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine.Gertrude Elion gave us a leukaemia fighting drug.Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis (a sexually transmitteddisease).

Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases.Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission.Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology (disorders of the endocrinesystem; diabetes, hyperthyroidism).Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy (psychotherapy to treat mentaldisorders, depression and phobias).Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.George Wald won a Nobel for furthering our understanding of the humaneye.Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology (study of embryos and theirdevelopment).Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen Nobel Prizeswhile only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4 billion Muslims(other than Peace Prizes).

Can you name the most beneficent philanthropist in the history of theworld?The name is George Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4billion most of which has gone as aid to scientists and universitiesaround the world.Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has builta hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning seven goldmedals.Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker are all Jewish.

To be certain, Washington is the capital that matters and in Washingtonthe lobby that matters is The American Israel Public Affairs Committee,or AIPAC. Washington knows that if PM Ehud Olmert were to discover thatthe earth is flat, AIPAC will make the 109th Congress pass a resolutioncongratulating Olmert on his discovery.

William James Sidis, with an IQ of 250-300, is the brightest human whoever existed.Guess what faith did he belong to?

Question:So, why are Jews so powerful?Answer: Education.

Why are Muslims so powerless?There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of the planet:one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million in Europe and sixmillion in the Americas.

Every fifth human being is a Muslim; for every single Hindu there aretwo Muslims, for every Buddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jewthere are one hundred Muslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?Here is why:

There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation of Islamic Conference(OIC), and all of them put together have around 500 universities; oneuniversity for every three million Muslims.The United States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Ranking ofWorld Universities', and intriguingly, not one university fromMuslim-majority states was in the top-500.As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian worldstands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have aliteracy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacyrate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state with aliteracy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world had completedprimary school, while less than 50 per cent of the 'literates' in theMuslim world did the same.Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attendeduniversity while no more than two per cent of the 'literates' in theMuslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims.The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 per million.In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs (in theChristian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per one million).Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP on researchand development, while the Christian world spends around five per centof its GDP.Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge.

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles per millionare two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in a society.In Pakistan, there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis whilethe same ratio in Singapore is 360.In the UK, the number of book titles per million stands at 2,000 whilethe same in Egypt is 20.Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exports arean important indicator of knowledge application. Pakistan's exports ofhigh technology products as a percentage of total exports stands at oneper cent. The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent; Kuwait, Morocco,and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent while Singapore is at 58 per cent.Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to apply knowledge.

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And by the sun and its brightness. And by the moon as it follows it (the sun). And by the day as it shows up (the suns) brightness. And by the night as it conceals it (the sun). And by the heaven and Him Who built it. And by the earth and Him Who spread it. And by Nafs (Adam or a person or a soul, etc.), and Him Who perfected him in proportion.Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him. Indeed he succeeds who purifies his ownself (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allah ordered, by following the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds). And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allah has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism or by following polytheism, etc. or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds).( Demi matahari dan sinarnya di pagi hari. Demi bulan apabila ia mengiringi. Demi siang apabila ia menampakkan diri. Demi malam apabila ia menutupi. Demi langit dan seluruh binaannya. Demi bumi dan yang ada di hamparannya. Demi jiwa dan penyempurnaannya. Allah mengilhamkan sukma keburukan (kefasikan) dan kebaikan (ketaqwaan). Beruntunglah siapa yang mensucikannya dan rugilah siapa yang mengotorinya. ).(Asysams, Chapter 91 , Verse 1-10)